These are the Daily Tech Headlines for Tuesday, December 5, 2017, I'm Tom Merritt

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YouTube said Monday it plans to have more than 10,000 people on staff in 2018 to identify inappropriate content. YouTube hopes adding human staff will help improve its algorithmic efforts at stopping objectionable content. YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki also said the company will launch a new comment moderation tool and shut down comments altogether in some cases.

Fitbit is adding a few dozen apps to its Ionic smartwatch. Among the new editions are Philips, Flipboard, and Yelp and outside of the US, Deezer. Fitbit says by the end of the month apps will arrive from United Airlines, Nest, Clue and TripAdvisor among others. The updates also add new watch faces and support for more credit cards.

The Honor 7X phone is now available in the US for preorder for $200 delivering mid-December. It costs £270 in the UK and €300 in Europe with some regions getting immediate shipping. The 5.93-inch phone has a 2:1 display and a 2160x1080 screen though no fast charging or NFC.

Apple has begun selling an unlocked version of the iPhone X without a SIM-card in the US, meaning you can activate it on any carrier. You could buy an unlocked phone previously by paying full price but there was confusion about which models would work on which systems, and all came with a carrier SIM card.

Instagram has updated its Stories function for Android and iOS to automatically archive them to a private part of your profile. The feature will be turned on by default but can be turned off. You can then make what's called Stories Highlights by adding up to 100 old Stories clips which you can display on your profile.

Eurogamer reports that ZhugeX tipped people off on Twitter that Nintendo and Nvidia have partnered in China to upgrade Wii and GameCube games to 1080p and port them to Android. Titles include Super Mario Galaxy, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, New Super Mario Bros. Wii, and Punch-out!! All exclusive to the Nvidia Shield.

Along with the release of Android 8.1, Google is releasing Android Oreo Go Edition to OEMs. The low-end Android configuration also comes with a suite of Go versions of Google apps like maps, Gmail, YouTube Assistant and more. Android Go works on devices with less than 1GB of RAM, using less memory and less storage.

Samsung has begun mass production of the first 512GB embedded Universal Flash Storage chip paving the way for phones with 512GB of storage. The chip has 860MB/s sequential read speed and 255MB/s sequential write speed, meaning a 5GB HD video could transfer in about six seconds.

The US FCC wants to change ISPs from being considered common carriers, back to being considered information services, as they were before 2015. Back then AT&T was sued by the FTC over throttling its unlimited customers. AT&T's argues that since it is common carrier in voice, the FTC had no jurisdiction over its data, even though back then data was an information service. If AT&T wins the case on those grounds, then the reclassification of ISPs as information services would mean that neither the FCC OR the FTC could regulate its data service. The FCC is voting on the reclassification December 14, likely before the court case will be decided.

IBM says its Power9 chip can increase workloads on common AI frameworks like Chainer, TensorFlow and Caffe by almost 4 times. IBM also said it worked closely with Nvidia to build a system bus that can move workloads between Power9 and Nvidia GPUs 10 times as fast as competitors. Power9 will be used in the Summit supercomputer being built by Lawrence Livermore and Oakridge national labs. IBM also intends to sell the Power9 chip to cloud vendors and offer a cloud service itself.

GM announced a new service called Marketplace that would let drivers pre-purchase coffee and gas and make restaurant reservations from the dashboard. Some purchases in the new system are completed using a smart phone.

Nissan announced it will pilot test a system to hail two autonomous Nissan Leaf vehicles in March in Japan. Nissan is working with DeNA to create the ride-hailing service. The system will be able to handle vague queries like "I want ramen" and pick a place for the passenger if they desire. Nissan aims to have a commercial fleet of Leaf cars in service by the early 2020s.

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